March 12 - April 13 calendar

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MARCH

March 12

MOSCOW - An annual conference of oil and gas industry supply chain, Neftegazsnab

NEW YORK - Award ceremony of the National Book Critics Circle

MINSK - A plenum of the CIS Economic Court will convene (until March 13)

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will hold a conference with state officials on the anti-crisis program in the White House

BAGHDAD - A court will hear the case of Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George Bush

March 13

MOSCOW - The CIS Economic Council will convene (1.00 p.m., President Hotel, ul. Bolshaya Yakimanka, 24)

March 14

LONDON - G20 finance ministers will meet

JAPAN - Japan will send its ships to Somalia's waters

March 15

ZURICH - Eighth session of the Russian economic and financial forum in Switzerland (until March 16)

PARIS - PACE will hold a meeting on the Middle East (until March 17)

PARIS - A PACE special subcommittee on early warning and prevention of crises in Europe will hold a session (until March 17)

March 16

MOSCOW - Fifth annual logistics forum

MOSCOW - Fifth international Moscow congress on biotechnologies (until March 20)

PLESETSK - Russian Rockot carrier vehicle with Europe's first GOCE satellite on board will be launched

MOSCOW - Fifth international biotechnology congress will open (until March 20)

MOSCOW - A court will hear a suit by Russian oil producer LUKoil against the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service

March 17

YAOUNDE, Cameroon / LUANDA, Angola - Pope Benedict XVI will pay a visit (until March 23)

YEKATERINBURG - Third international cooking congress, EurAsia (until March 19)

CALGARY, Canada - A conference with U.S. ex-president George W. Bush

U.S. - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will pay a visit

BEIJING - The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, will pay a visit (until March 21)

March 18

LONDON - A forum of G20 business leaders

ST. PETERSBURG - Ninth international ecology forum

BAKU, Azerbaijan - A referendum on constitutional amendments

NEW YORK - Media Summit (until March 19)

March 19

MOSCOW - An all-Russian forum of business media

MOSCOW - Sixth Moscow Chemistry Summit (until March 20)

March 21

KALININGRAD - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will pay a visit (until March 15)

BRATISLAVA - Slovakian presidential elections

STUTTGART - WBC Heavyweight World Champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Juan Carlos Gomez of Cuba

LONDON - U.S. President Barack Obama will begin his European tour to visit the Britain, France, Germany and Czech Republic (until April 5)

March 22

MACEDONIA - Presidential elections

HYDERABAD - the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum will be held

BERLIN - A conference on human rights in Europe and a session of the PACE commission on legal issues and human rights (until March 25)

PARIS - A PACE commission on equal opportunities for men and women will convene (until March 25)

March 23

BRUSSELS - International donors' conference on modernizing Ukraine's gas transmission system

STRASBOURG - European Parliament plenary session

BRUSSELS - An international donor conference on modernizing Ukraine's gas transit system

BEIJING - A conference on Russian-Chinese relations during the global economic crisis (until March 24)

March 24

MOSCOW - Third annual conference on electric power market (Ritz-Carlton hotel)

TALLINN - Tallinn district court will consider an appeal against acquittal of Bronze Soldier defenders

March 25

ST. PETERSBURG - Second international MPExpo-2009 (Modern equipment and advanced technologies for power industry)

MINSK - Session of Joint Consultative Commission on Disarmament

March 26

BRUSSELS - The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, will chair a European Business Summit (until March 27)

PARIS, France - First Meeting of States Parties to the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

March 27

MOSCOW - The Russian Public Chamber will hold a plenary session on Russia's economic strategy amid the global financial crisis

MOSCOW - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization will hold a special conference on Afghanistan

MOSCOW - Second annual conference, Aviaforum 2009 (Marriott Grand Hotel)

ST. PETERSBURG - A Russian-German forum to discuss the global financial crisis and commodity issues (until March 28)

March 28

MOSCOW - Russia will meet Azerbaijan in a 2010 World Cup qualifier

March 29

ROME - A meeting of G8 labor ministers

PODGORICA, Montenegro - Early parliamentary elections

March 30

ST. PETERSBURG - An inter-parliamentary conference, Nord Stream: parliamentary dimension (until March 31)

VIENNA, Austria - An international IAEA symposium on nuclear security (until April 3)

DOHA, Qatar - Arab League summit

APRIL

April 1

LICHTENSTEIN - Russia will meet Lichtenstein in a 2010 World Cup qualifier

April 2

LONDON - G20 summit

MINSK - The Belarusian parliament will consider recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

April 3

MOSCOW - Nika award ceremony

GERMANY / FRANCE - NATO summit (until April 4)

MOSCOW - 20th congress of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB)

April 4

MOSCOW - Winners of Russia's state award in modern art will be announced

April 5

MOLDOVA - Presidential elections

CZECH REPUBLIC - U.S. President Barack Obama will pay a visit

April 6

MOSCOW - An Italian economic delegation led by Economic Development Minister Claudio Scajola will pay a visit (until April 9)

April 7

MOSCOW - Tenth international scientific conference on development of economy and society (until April 9)

April 8

MOSCOW - A conference of nuclear industry suppliers

April 9

ALGIERS, Algeria - Presidential elections

April 10

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - CIS foreign ministers will meet

April 11

ST. PETERSBURG - International ballet festival, "Dance open" 2009

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